It’s not a good thing when you get bad laughter. In fact, that’s part of why they call it “bad laughter.” It’s embarrassing and it shows that you aren’t connecting.

When it comes to political candidates, Hillary Clinton is the epitome of bad laughter. She’s like every movie ever shown on “Mystery Science Theater 3000” with Kevin Federline’s rap album playing over it on repeat.

Whether it’s the Democrat presidential nominee’s lies, the weird pickle jar test she did on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” or that time she tried to play Forrest Gump in a video, there’s enough bad laughs to fill a Pauly Shore movie. And she managed to do it again when appearing on “The Tom Joyner Show” on Wednesday.

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Clinton was appearing in a panel discussion with CNN host Don Lemon and political analyst Roland Martin. According to the Washington Free Beacon, Lemon asked Clinton about a quote from Colin Powell’s emails that didn’t speak highly of Clinton or her honesty.

“Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris,” Powell wrote in an email to Democrat donor Jeffrey Leeds.

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Clinton’s response was priceless, albeit not in a good way (at least, if you’re a Clinton aficionado).

“I think I’ve worked very, very hard to be more transparent than not just my opponent, but in a comparison to anybody’s who’s run,” Clinton said.

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Except, see if you can hear something during it:

That’s right, someone on mic burst out laughing. Ouch.

Lemon was originally reported as the culprit, although the liberal stalwart later issued a statement that he wasn’t responsible. Way to throw Roland Martin under the bus, Don.

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In all fairness, though, without video it’s hard to tell. I mean, who in that studio could possibly keep a straight face when Hillary Clinton said that that she was transparent in “comparison to anybody’s who’s run.”

Maybe compared to say, William Henry Harrison, sure. I mean, Harrison never appeared on televised debates or radio programs. That’s only because they hadn’t been invented yet, though. In fact, the only candidates she can be considered objectively more transparent than are candidates who lived in an era where the information about them couldn’t be disseminated by electronic media.